Illinois Rep. Mike Bost flips his lid over pension legislation

Wednesday

May 30, 2012 at 12:01 AMMay 30, 2012 at 1:54 PM

There are two ways to describe what happened on the floor of the Illinois General Assembly on Tuesday. The polite version: Illinois Rep. Mike Bost is not happy about the legislative process surrounding current pension legislation, and he's not shy about expressing his mind. The less-polite version: This dude just had a meltdown.

Sean F. Driscoll

The polite version: Illinois Rep. Mike Bost is not happy about the legislative process surrounding current pension legislation, and he's not shy about expressing his mind.

The less-polite version: this dude just had a meltdown.

Check out this video of Bost, a Murphysboro Republican, on the floor of the Illinois House of Representatives as members were discussing a pension bill that had cleared committee Tuesday morning.

Warning: salty language and paper tossing ahead.

I particularly enjoy the reactions of the legislators sitting near him, especially the guy to his right who has that look on his face of someone sitting at a dinner table where a couple is having a very ugly argument and wishing that a hole would open in the universe and just swallow him whole.

The pension bill Bost is raging against (actually he's raging against the rules for debate on the bill) passed a House committee Tuesday and may be heard by the whole chamber today before going back to the Senate for a vote. Stay tuned, and if you're on the floor of the General Assembly, wear a helmet.